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  • Came Back to Show You I Could Fly
    Themes:Coming of age, friendship, troubled teens
    Reading age:13+
    Australian
  • All in the Blue Unclouded Weather
    Themes:Friendship, rural Australia, sisters, coming of age
    Reading age:12+
    Australian
  • The Book of Whispers
    Themes:friendship, history, courage, love, religion
    Reading age:14+
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    Australian
  • Elizabeth and Zenobia
    Themes:friendship, imagination, courage
    Reading age:10+
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    Australian
  • The Curiosity Machine
    Themes:adventure, friendship
    Reading age:9+
    Australian
  • The Road to Winter
    Themes:survival, honour, friendship, love, refugees, dystopia
    Reading age:14+
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    Australian
  • When Friendship Followed Me Home
    Themes:resilience, grief, family, friendship, identity, animals, cancer
    Reading age:9+
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  • You Know Me Well
    Themes:LGBTQI, friendship
    Reading age:14+
  • Julius and the Soulcatcher
    Themes:time-travel, adventure, fantasy, steampunk, friendship, history
    Reading age:12+
    Australian
  • Julius and the Watchmaker
    Themes:time-travel, adventure, fantasy, steampunk, friendship, identity
    Reading age:12+
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    Australian
  • The War that Saved My Life
    Themes:adventure, family, identity, disability, friendship, history, WWII
    Reading age:10+
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  • Waer
    Themes:identity, survival, honour, sacrifice, friendship, guilt, courage, grief and loss
    Reading age:14+
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    Australian
  • Max
    Themes:holocaust, moral choices, good and evil, friendship, Identity
    Reading age:14+
  • Clancy of the Undertow
    Themes:LGBTQI, coming-of-age, friendship, moral and ethical conflict
    Reading age:14+
    Australian
  • Inbetween Days
    Themes:coming-of-age, friendship, escape, love
    Reading age:14+
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    Australian
  • Another Day
    Themes:love, friendship, identity, mystery, relationships
    Reading age:14+
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  • How to Be Happy
    Themes:depression, friendship, sexual identity, suicide, academic pressure, love, adolescent confusion
    Reading age:14+
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    Australian
  • We Are the Rebels
    Themes:Australian history, politics, migration, conflict, identity, women
    Reading age:12+
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    Australian
  • Goodbye Stranger
    Themes:friendship, relationships, love, betrayal
    Reading age:11+
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  • Adrift
    Themes:intercultural understanding, environment, class, physical and mental survival
    Reading age:14+
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  • Molly and Pim and the Millions of Stars
    Themes:imagination, friendship, nature, identity
    Reading age:8+
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    Australian
  • Burn
    Themes:supernatural, friendship, identity
    Reading age:14+
    Australian
  • Lullaby
    Themes:identity, sibling relationships, guilt, philosophy
    Reading age:14+
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  • The Secret River
    Themes:settlement, land rights, identity
    Reading age:15 +
    Australian
  • Hold Me Closer
    Themes:homosexuality, friendship
    Reading age:14+
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    Dig

    Dig

    A.S. King
    The Peacock Detectives

    The Peacock Detectives

    Carly Nugent
    Themes:Friendship, understanding adults, self-confidence, independence
    Reading age:9+
    Australian
    The Missing of Clairdelune

    The Missing of Clairdelune

    Christelle Dabos
    Reading age:13+
    A Winter's Promise

    A Winter’s Promise

    Christelle Dabos
    Themes:Fantasy romance, strong heroine, epic fantasy
    Reading age:13+
    The War that Saved My Life

    The War that Saved My Life

    Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
    Themes:adventure, family, identity, disability, friendship, history, WWII
    Reading age:10+
    Beautiful Mess

    Beautiful Mess

    Claire Christian
    Themes:Mental Health, Teen sexuality, LGBTQIA, Suicide, Romance, Friendship
    Reading age:14+
    Australian